An outage yesterday meant that over 10 million blogs were left offline for close to 2 hours, costing the wordpress community around 5 million page views. Even WordPress admitted this is the worse outage they have seen in 5 years.
Matt Mullenweg wrote;
“We are still gathering details, but it appears an unscheduled change to a core router by one of our data centre providers messed up our network in a way we haven’t experienced before, and broke the site,”
This came as Backup Technology released our online backup plugin for wordpress giving bloggers a system of safely and reliably backing up their content. An event like this will only go to show the importance of regular backups.
So, What Happened?
Well, Founder of WordPress Matt Mullenweg Wrote;
“We are still gathering details, but it appears an unscheduled change to a core router by one of our data centre providers messed up our network in a way we haven’t experienced before, and broke the site,”
Mullenweg did go onto reassure bloggers by stating there was no risk to data, it simply couldn’t be served but was perfectly secure.
